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Trump touts new sugar deal with MexicoThe HillThe U.S. Sugar Industry earlier this month announced support for a tweaked trade deal with Mexico after initially opposing the long-awaited agreement. The American Sugar Alliance, which represents sugar farmers and producers, told the Commerce ...

Thanks to Mexican dumping, you can say aloha to Hawaiian sugarWashington ExaminerBeet sugar factories throughout the Midwest and cane facilities in the South are also limping along after losing $4 billion due to Mexico's unlawful acts. The U.S., like most other countries, has laws on the books to keep foreign competitors from ...

Wall Street Journal readers were asked that question in a half-page advertisement from the American Sugar Alliance today.

The answer: After Mexico broke U.S. trade laws and ran Hawaii's century-old sugar industry into the ground.

This print advertisement, urging America to defend its remaining sugar jobs, is just one of many running in Washington, DC, this week as U.S. government officials work to bring Mexico's subsidized sugar industry into compliance with antidumping, countervailing duty laws.​Mexico, which was found guilty in 2015 of violating those laws, is still harming U.S. sugar producers and threatening U.S. jobs by flooding the market with subsidized sugar.

​And the message in those ads was blunt.​"Mexico broke U.S. trade law. U.S. sugar workers lost their jobs. Hold Mexico accountable."If Mexico will not agree to comply by June 5, the U.S. Department of Commerce has promised to impose duties of 80 percent to stop the injury being done by Mexico's unfair trade – as is required by the law.

Sugar Prices Fall as Potential Global Surplus LoomsFox BusinessSince February, sugar prices have been in a downward trend as expectations of significant sugar imports from India didn't materialize. Despite the sharp fall in India's sugar production, domestic consumption tumbled as a result of the government's ...

Mexico, U.S. agree to extend deadline for sugar trade talksNasdaqThe U.S. sugar industry pressed the Commerce Department late last year to withdraw from a 2014 trade agreement that sets prices and quota for U.S. imports of Mexican sugar, unless the deal could be renegotiated. The letter on Monday was sent by Ronald ...

Trade Agreements in Spotlight at ASGA Meeting — President Trump’s focus on renegotiating trade agreements is getting attention at this week’s American Sugarbeet Growers Association annual meeting. Executive Vice President Luther Markwart says it is unclear how NAFTA would be renegotiated.

​"I know he is anxious to do it, but, since we haven’t done one of these renegotiations before, there’s not much precedent for it. We’re going to have to wait and see how it plays a little bit and not speculate too early in the process.” Markwart says sugar will always be part of any trade negotiation.

US-Mexico Sugar Trade Suspension AgreementKTICMexico is the top supplier to the U.S. sugar industry and negotiators from both countries are in talks to the suspension agreement that prescribes the balance of raw and refined sugar that heads to the U.S. to ensure refiners have what they need. Among ...